Attachment for plows.



' N0 MODEL.

PATENTED SEPT. 1', 1903.

F. GALE.

ATTACHMENT FOR PLOWS.

APPLIUATION FILED DEC 13, 1900.

No. 738,105. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1903 P. GALE.

ATTACHMENT FOR PLOWS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 13, 1900.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- 30 MODEL.

No. 738,105. Patented September 1, 1903.

UNiTEn STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FREDERICK GALE, OF LANGEFIELD, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO JOHNSTON HEMPHILL, OF LANCEFIELD, AUSTRALIA.

ATTACHMENT FOR PLOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,105, datedSeptember 1, 1903.

A plication filed December 18,1900. Serial 110. 39,616. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: will be economically used and be sown at Beitknown t-hatI, FREDERICK GALE, a subpractically precise intervals.Where this inject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, vention isapplied to a single-furrow plow, residing at High street, Lancefield, inthe (101- the driving of the hopper mechanism will be 5 ony of Victoria,Australia, have invented cereffected by any of various known means-fortain new and useful Improvements in Attachexample, by a wheel attachedto the beam and ments for Flows; and I do hereby declare the runninginthe furrow behind the moldboardfollowing to be a full, clear, and exactdescripas will be well understood by those acquainted tion of theinvention, such as will enable with this class of invention. 10 othersskilled in the art to which it appertains In a plow of two furrows ormore having to make and use the same. a furrow-wheel an arrangementmaking use The object of this invention is to provide of that wheel ispreferred and is illustrated improvements for the purpose of sowing, main the drawings herewith. There will be a nuring, and harrowing incombination with hopper above the rear of each plowshare, and

55 plowing, and to accomplish these objects cera chain connection fromthe rear hopper will tain attachments for plows are provided drive themechanism of all the others. which are neither costly nor troublesome toReferringto the drawings herewith, Figuse and which require very littleextra power ures 1 and 2 are on a smaller scale than Fig. to work them.These attachments may be 3, and Fig. 3 is on a smaller scale than Figs.20 used in combination with eitherasingle-fur- 4 to 14.. In variousfigures some parts are row or a multifurrow plow, and their advanbrokenaway or omitted to more clearly inditages are very great, for the timelost and cate other parts. Fig. 1 shows in side view labor required whenland is first plowed, then part of a double-furrow plow with theinvensown and manured, and then harrowed by tion attached. Fig. 2 is aplan View of parts 25 separate implements is considerable. The inFig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a back end elevaground is also objectionablytrampled down, tion of the same. Fig. 4 is a plan of the comas by theanimals which pass over it at each bined seed and manure hopperconvertible operation. Priorinventionsin respect to aginto a seed-hopperexclusively. Figs. 5 6, ricultural implements have effected combiand 7show the seed-feed wheel in three 0 nations of one or more operations,especially viewsnamely, in plan or edge view, in side of plowing andseed sowing; but the inven- View, and in vertical transverse section,retion about to be described provides novel despectively. Fig. 8 shows avertical section tails essential to success, enabling unplowed throughthe manure-feed wheel, its apertured land to become fully-cultivatedmanuredland cover, and part of the hopper-base. Figs. 9 5 with the seedsown (singly when required, as and 10 are plan views of the upperandunder well as at regular distances) in drills and the side of themanure-feed wheel, respectively. ground harrowed, so that the seed isfree to Fig. 11 is a plan view of the seat of the maat once begingrowing. Moderately wet nure-feed wheel with exit, showing also (inweather is no bar to the use of this invention; dotted lines) a tubewhich depends from the 0 40 but where it is desired not to manure thesoil under side of the same. Fig. 12 is a plan of that operation isomitted and the inanuringthe apertured ooverof the manure-feed wheel,hopper is converted in its upper part into an this cover being left outof the other views extension of the seed-hopper. The quantity (exceptFig. 8) forgreater clearness. Fig. 13 of manure fed in a given distanceis regulated is an elevation of the pinion for driving the 5 5 by asimple device. In sowing another simmannre-feed wheel. Fig. 14 is a sideview ple device enables the implement to be rapof the seed-feed wheeland part of the seedidly suited to different kinds of seed-as, forcompartment in vertical section. Fig. 15 is example, peas or wheat. Afixed (orapproxia sectional view on the line 15 15 of Fig. 4. matelyfixed) number of seeds is dropped at In the drawings the same letters ofrefer- I00 50 a time and led by suitable means to the exact ence areused to indicate like parts.

point of the ground required, so that the seed a in each case is atwo-compartment hopper attached above the main frame, as to a beam 2 ofthe plow, by any suitable standard I), duly clamped or secured to saidbeam, as by clamp c, and bolted or the like to the hopper. To thefurrow-wheel d of the plow is attached (either to its arms or around itsspindle) a toothed wheel 6. Another toothed wheel f, the support ofwhich is a hanger g, is geared to said wheel 6. The top of hanger g issecured, as by a clamp h, to the frames. A light sprocket-wheel t andany suitable clutch, as atj, (for putting it in or out of operation,)the construction of which will be well understood by competentmechanics, is provided on the spindle of the wheel e. Details (such asthe handle) of the clutch are not shown, no claim thereto being made. Bymoving the clutch the attendant stops (when required) the saidsprocket-wheel i, and thereby s'tops the seed-feed Wheel and manure-feedwheel, which take their motion from the said (or primary) sprocket-wheel't', as next explained.

7c is a chain connecting wheel 1' with one or other of a series ofdifferent-sized sprocketwheels Z on a spindle p, which passes acrossbeneath the rear hopper CL and which has on it another sprocket-wheel m,a chain at, from which engages a sprocket-wheel 0 on another spindle q,similar top, but under another hopper CL, so that the spindles of bothhoppers will turn simultaneously and equally fast, and so on for as manyhoppers as are in use on the implement.

The several sprocketsl are all cast integrally and are adjustablyslidable on the spindlep, so that any desired sized sprocket can bebrought in place to receive chain 7c and can be temporarily fixed orkeyed on the spindle in that position. Any suitable tension-pulley (notshown) is provided to keep chain taut. Each hopper-spindle, as p qaforesaid, is provided with a worm r, as shown in Fig. 4 only, which isgeared to a pinion 8, Figs. 3, 4, and 13, which works in a suitablebearing at the base of the hopper and is connected to a manure-feedwheel 25, Figs. 8 to 10, (as at the center aperture to, which receivesthe top of the pinion-spindle.) Wheel t turns in an annular well 1),Figs. 4, 8, and 11, at the base of the manure-compartment of the hopper,to which base the sides all around slope. An aperture w is provided inthe well center, Figs. 8 and 11, to enable the pinion to be droppedthrough the same into place, a collar x at the top of the pinion beinglarge enough to rest upon the circumference of the said aperture, thewheel 25 thus resting upon the said collar. The wheel 75 has all aroundits edge sheet-metal vanes, cutters, or teeth y, Figs. 4, 8, to 10, eachforming the outsideof a somewhat triangularpocket. (Seen in Fig. 10.)After pinion sis put in place and wheel i put over and secured toit, asbyanut, (for thepurpose next described,) then acentrally open plate 1,Figs. 8 and 12, which is of slightly larger diameter than well n, is putover the wheel 25 and is rested (so that it cannot turn or rise) onthosame and on the sides of said well. If any hard foreign substancewhich the vanes cannot divide gets in their path, then the wheel 15 willstop, the connection (as said nut) to the pinion being so arranged thatit may loosen and enable the pinion to continue moving. The attendantmay then in due course remove the obstruction and tighten the nut. 2 isa side enlargement (of the central aperture in plate 1) above teeth orvanes y. The manure which is in the hopper above said plate cannot getto or meet the vanes y except through this aperture 2, which is madecomparatively small. This prevents excessive discharge of manure andclogging of the vanes.

3 is a small aperture in the base of well '0, I

but not central, and this is provided with a comb edge 4, Figs. 4 and11. This aperture 3 is the only exit for the manure, and it is solocated as not to be'directly under aperture 2. The manurehasthustobecarriedaround some distance by vanes y before it can reach aperture 3.If it is desired to reduce the amount of manure fed, a wheel 25 may beinserted having smaller pockets. For example, part or all of the spacecontained by the triangular pockets seen in Fig. 10 may be made of solidmetal. The manure will then still fill whatever spaces occur between thewell-walls and the vanes, Figs. 4 and 8, and will be carried around toaperture 3.

The manure used, though normally fioury, will, if lumpy, bedisintegrated by the vanes or cutters and the comb 4 before it leavesthe manure-compartment 5. In cases where the comb 4 does not insure themanure dropping in a suificiently-divided state a finer comb may besubstituted or finer divisions of the space 3 be otherwise produced. Adoor 6 (hinged at its base) forms adivision between this compartment andthe seed-compartment 7, and this door when shifted from its normalvertical position and allowed to fall down on one side, as seen in Fig.4, has the eifect of considerably enlarging compartment 7 and closingcompartment 5, and this is done when desired when manuring is notrequired. The rate of the manure-feed is regulated by the diameter ofwhichever sprocket-wheel lie in gear with chain 7t at the time. Themanure after leaving its compartment 5 of the hopper passes to a rubberor flexible tube 10 and thence to a funnel 8, which is of metal andpermanently fixed upon the upper rear part 9 of a furrow-drill. To allowthe furrowdrill to be raised when required and when at a headland, thebase of this tube 10 is loose in the top of the funnel. Theseed-compartment 7 has each of its sides sloping to its base, at whichis a small aperture for the dischargeorexitofseed. Thisapertureisintwoparts marked 11 and 12, the latter being the shorter, between whichparts is a door or partition 13, (shown vertical in Fig. 4, though it isnot normally in that position,) which in practice is to be hinged sothat it can be ICC dropped to either side, so completely closing eitherpart of the aperture. Part of the edge of a seed-feed wheel 1st, whichis fixed to the hopper-spindle, as fits up into this aperture, (it isimportant it should project up into the part 11,) preventingseeddropping out vertically and also enabling the wheel 14 as itrevolves to carry out of the hopper by reason either of the pockets 15or the groove 16 (both sides of which groove are fluted) a regularquantity of seed.

The pockets are the size to hold four grains (or other predeterminedquantity) of wheat without any part thereof projecting above theperiphery, or they will do well for sowing rye, well dressed barley, andother small seeds, while the fluted groove is for any grain for whichthe pockets are not preferred. For example, badly-bearded barley, oats,maize, and peas may all be sown by using the fluted groove, the flutingspreventing the wheel 14 slipping around without carrying the seed withit. The groove is of V or like section and narrow. The seed does not gointo it crosswise, but only longitudinally. The wheel 14 works upwardly,as shown by arrow in Fig. 14, the aperture 11 12 being in asloping sideof the seed-compartment, and this insures not only a complete absence ofchoking of the wheel during work,but the relative positions of the partsinsure a constant supply of seed to the wheel so long as any remains inthe compartment.

The hopper is preferably made with a bottom of cast-iron with turned-upedges, the body of the hopper (which may be of sheet metal and which hasa watertight cover, not shown) being affixed thereto. There is aseedchute 17 provided, the top of which surrounds I the base of eachwheel 14, and each chute leads into a manure-tube 10, so that both seedand manure thence pass together to the drill.

The drill is hollow and narrows toward an oblique rear exit or aperture18, the effect being to allow the earth which the drill passes throughto fall onto the seed and manure and cover it immediately the drill haspassed. At the front end of the drill or furrowopeneris attached anobliquely-set renewable cutting-blade 19. A drill is fixed to eachmoldboard 26,but not rigidly. A bar 20, the rear end of which is fixedto the drill-front, has its front end pivoted to the moldboard, as byapin 21. As seen in Fig. 1, there is a slot 22 (which may be of anylength) in bar 20, through which a pin 23 from the moldboard projects,and this slot allows the drill to rise and fall on its pivot freely,according to the resistance of the ground. 24: is a spring attached tothe moldboard or frame above the bar 20, the object of which is to keeppressure thereon, so as to depress the drill quickly when it has beenraised.

To the back of each drill is provided a harrow of two blades, eachmarked 25 and each having a renewable vertical strip 27, as seen in Fig.2 and dotted in Fig. 1, attached thereto.

These strips or narrow plates 27 can be fixed to either side of anyharrow blade or blades where desired to open out or break the groundwhen the latter is of such a clayey or like nature that the harrow wouldotherwise simply make a narrow cut in it. In order that the position ofeach harrow may be easily altered, the blades 25 are attached to anupper plate 28, which has in it laterally-extending slots marked 29,Fig. 2. Projections upward from the harrow-plate 25 enter these slotsand are suitably secured, as by nuts 30, in any position required. Tofacilitate the raising of the harrows when required, the plates 28 areconnected by a rod 31, and this rod is connected by a pair of chains ora single chain 32 to one end of a bent lever 33, which has each end bentdownwardly, the middle being horizontally supported in bearings 34:,secured to any suitable part of the framing of the plow, as to thecross-bar 35. The other end of the bent lever 33 is secured to thespindle 36 of the land-wheel 37, which is operated by any usual means,as lever 38, when turning a headland, thus lifting the harrows and theother cultivating parts of the plow out of the ground. The moldboardshave suitable stays, as 39.

Those features above mentioned which are novel maybe applied to anysuitable style of plow other than that illustrated, while in respect tothe form, relative sizes, number, and positions of the novel parts anydesired modifications may be made which adhere to'the spirit of theinvention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is

1. In an attachment for plows, the combination with the plow-frame, of ahopper having two compartments, one for seed and the other for manure,the said compartments being provided with adischarge-aperture dividingit into two portions, a door hinged at its bottom and being arrangedintermediate the two portions of the aperture, as described, a seed-feedwheel projecting up into the longer portion of the aperture, the saidwheel being provided with a series of seed-pockets and a circumferentialgroove, all as and for the purpose specified.

2. In an attachment to plows, the combination with a drill, of amoldboard, and a bar 20 having one end fixed to the drill and the otherend pivoted to the moldboard, said bar having a slot 22, a pin on themoldboard projecting into said slot, and a spring arranged to depressthe drill.

3. In an attachment for plows, the combination of a plow-frame, anopen-bottom hopper, a seed-feed wheel adapted to revolve in said hopper,said wheel having a V-shaped fluted groove and pockets on the peripherythereof, and a hinged partition over said wheel, substantially asdescribed.

4. In an attachment for plows, the combination of a plow-frame, atwo-compartment ICC ceive seed, a swinging door in each hopper,

manure and seed feed wheels underneath said compartments respectively,each of said seedfeed wheels being provided with a V-shaped groove, andwith pockets on its periphery, and a hinged partition located above saidseed-feed wheel, substantially as described.

6. In an attachment for plows, the combination of a plow-frame, of atwo-compartment hopper, one compartment being adapted to receive manure,and the other to receive seed, a feed-wheel mounted in the bottom ofsaid manure-compartment, said feed-wheel being also adapted todisintegrate masses of manure, a seed-feed Wheel carried beneath saidsecond compartment, and provided with a V shaped fluted groove, and withfeedpockets on its periphery, a hinged door adapted to cover either ofsaid compartments or to leave them both open, said door being arrangedcentrally in said hopper, and a second hinged door or partition 13located above said seed-feed Wheel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK GALE.- Witnesses:

W. H. (JUBLEY, G. G. TURRI.

